TAXES: On the Mark, Get Set, Calculate

Income tax time is not merely rolling around again this year. It is crashing
into the consciousness of roughly 85 million U.S. taxpayers, who have
four weeks to meet the April 15 filing deadline. Form 1040 is more complicated
than ever, asks more seemingly unanswerable questions, and requires more aspirin
and mental ability to complete. Even Form 1040A, the short version for taxpayers
who do not itemize deductions, is trickier than before. Beams Harry Friedenberg,
owner of H & R Tax Service in Los Angeles: "Congress in its infinite
wisdom simplified the tax...